Tarianne DeYonker is a Dominican Sister of Adrian, Michigan. A teacher, administrator, marriage/family therapist, and program developer, she also served in community leadership. She is now in vocation work and facilitating creative writing workshops.
Lydia Collado is a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in Northern Samar, Philippines, where she heads the Sacred Heart Institute for Transformative Education (SHIFT) Foundation; it does campus/ pastoral ministry, operates a nursery, and manages an organic demonstration farm, Sophie's Farm.
Karlyn Cauley is a Sister of the Divine Savior in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A studio artist, she taught art and worked with sisters in temporary vows for many years. Presently she does ecumenical work in the adult spirituality of women.
Lilian Bong is a Sister of St. Joseph of the Apparition who was born in Malaysia. As a nurse she did medical mission outreach in Myanmar, before entering her community. She ministers in Western Australia as a Provincial Councilor and in vocation / mission appeal.
Adriana Haro Betancourt is a member of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity. Orginally from Mexico, she currently works in youth ministry in the Philippines, does congregational communication committee work, and produces a weekly online radio program for youth evangelization.
This story appears in the Seeking Refuge and Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions feature series.
by GSR Staff
June 18, 2018
Seeking Refuge - GSR is following the journeys refugees make: living in camps, seeking asylum, experiencing resettlement, and facing deportation to a country they may only vaguely remember or that may still be dangerous. Here are some of the faces you will meet in our Seeking Refuge series, tracing the path of refugees around the world.
by Larretta Rivera-Williams
Contributor
June 18, 2018
Every day there are situations in the news related to violence, racial discrimination, social upheavals, or questions involving immoral and unethical conditions. Keep your head in the game! Is this the way God meant for us to live? I am sure it is not! But that is the way minorities have had to live in the United States in order to survive.
This story appears in the Seeking Refuge feature series. View the full series.
by GSR Staff
June 18, 2018
Numerous Catholic organizations are involved in the worldwide refugee and migration crisis, including the Vatican, congregations of women religious and local parishes. We have a list of links to some of the key organizations, along with the United Nations' and other statistics.
This story appears in the Seeking Refuge feature series. View the full series.
June 18, 2018
Over the next several weeks, GSR will bring a sharper focus to the plight of refugees through a special series, Seeking Refuge, which will follow the journeys refugees make: living in camps, seeking asylum, experiencing resettlement and integration, and those who are deported to a country they may only vaguely remember or that may still be dangerous. Though not every refugee follows this exact pattern, these stages in the journey are emblematic for many — and at every stage, women religious are doing what they can to help.
• All the Seeking Refuge series stories can be found here.
by GSR Staff
June 18, 2018
"If you push back against something, you reinforce the very thing you're pushing against. You get stuck because you're both pushing."